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Effectively Wild Episode 2013: The League Looks More Level

Effectively Wild: A FanGraphs Baseball Podcast

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The High Home Run Rate on Contact

It's not the greatest disconnect between swing and contact and result that I've ever seen. But there's also something to the idea that the ball is still quite lively, just like in a historical sense. It really is so dependent on what happened just before, which makes things seem extreme or not by comparison. And then my brain started doing really weird things in 2019 where sometimes I would be, first of all, how is that a home run?

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